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What about antisemitism this side of the Channel – does Kapoor have compunctions about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn?

But if even what some people like to call the ‘elite’ media have compunctions about making dangerous information public, or about rooting around for it, then I don’t think emerging forms will have a similar reluctance.

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Now we begin to have compunctions, and look back at the brave bottles squandered upon dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly, discussing politics the while, and even the schoolboy “took his whack,” like liquorice water.

And though a good man may commit the one fault or the other, now and then, by way of outlet, he is sure to have compunctions soon, and to scorn himself more than the sufferer.

And though a good man may commit the one fault or the other, now and then, by way of outlet, he is sure to have compunctions soon, and to scorn himself more than the sufferer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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